Capellanías - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 14:53:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Capellanías - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Inheritance systems in Modern Spain https://historylab.es/inheritance-systems-in-modern-spain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=inheritance-systems-in-modern-spain Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:13 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/los-sistemas-hereditarios-en-la-espana-moderna/ Resource showing the geographical distribution of inheritance systems according to their degree of equal distribution or accumulation in a single heir

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]]> According to the authors of the resource, “the inheritance systems sought the joint stability of men and women, mixing collective solidarity and particularised benefits” in search of succession strategies. In contrast to the traditional simplification of inheritance transmission models, the authors show us the more complex reality of the systems in their distribution throughout the national geography. The systems of sole heirs are subdivided according to the testator’s intention to promote a male or without defined priority. Within the former, Catalonia and the north of Aragon stand out, while in the latter, the areas of Navarre and Vizcaya stand out. For the Castilian egalitarian system, two variants have also been identified according to family motivations: favouring one heir with the third of improvement and the fifth of free disposition, leaving 2/3 of the inheritance for the rest destined to the offspring, or relatives in the absence of the former. This ensured the predominance of one heir over the others, but safeguarded a part for the overall distribution. Guipúzcoa, Asturias, the mountains of Santander and the province of Lugo (the latter already in the 18th century) reproduced this system. In the rest of the Crown of Castile, equal distribution between men and women, elders and minors predominated, except in cases where, out of affection or help in the testator’s old age, the testator tended to improve the inheritance of the person who assisted him. However, in order to avoid excessive patrimonial atomisation, wills could establish a patronage, chaplaincy or entailed estate in order to fix the endowed assets and provide the successors with constant assets that could not be alienated; another formula was to use part of the patrimony as a matrimonial dowry to ensure the social and biological reproduction of the family.

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]]> Income from the chaplaincies of the diocese of Salamanca (1779-1783) https://historylab.es/income-from-the-chaplaincies-of-the-diocese-of-salamanca-1779-1783/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=income-from-the-chaplaincies-of-the-diocese-of-salamanca-1779-1783 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:29:07 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/rentas-de-las-capellanias-de-la-diocesis-de-salamanca-1779-1783/ Resource showing the Salamancan income from the main way in the Crown of Castile to become a clergyman: the chaplaincies

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]]> The resource shows the incomes that the chaplaincies in Salamanca had in the late 18th century, between 1779 and 1783. But what was a chaplaincy? It was a perpetual foundation endowed with material goods with which to cover annual spiritual expenses. Like an entailed estate, the lands of the chaplaincies financed the masses that the founders stipulated, and which had to be officiated by a chaplain, normally a direct member of the founding family who was chosen to enter the clergy as a form of social reproduction. In return, the chaplain received a benefit and financial support, either directly or through the lease of the endowed land. The table shows the importance of land in the income of the foundations: 51.56% in the form of wheat and rye income, far from census income (14.06%), money (11.71%) or urban properties (6.25%). Within these general data for the diocese of Salamanca, there were areas in which, depending on their economic activity, the foundations received different levels of income: in the vicariate of Miranda del Castañar, census revenues accounted for 41.86% and wine income 34.88%, while wheat and rye accounted for a low 2.33%.

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